In Dandridge v. Williams, 397 U.S. 471, 90 S. Ct. 1153, 25 L. Ed. 2d 491 (1970), the Supreme Court adjudicated the validity of a Maryland Department of Public Welfare Regulation which placed an absolute maximum of $250.00 per month as a grant under the Aid For Dependent Children program, regardless of the size of the family or their actual need. The recipients challenged the statute, inter alia, on equal protection grounds, for it was obvious that a family with several children ended up with significantly less money per child to provide bread on the table or clothing on the body. But the Supreme Court held that the statute was valid and the holding there on equal protection grounds is relevant to the instant case even though here a due process challenge is asserted. The Court said:

"In the area of economics and social welfare, a State does not violate the Equal Protection Clause merely because the classifications made by its laws are imperfect. If the classification has some 'reasonable basis, ' it does not offend the Constitution simply because the classification 'is not made with mathematical nicety or because in practice it results in some inequality. ' Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co., 220 U.S. 61, 78, 31 S. Ct. 337, 340, 55 L. Ed. 369. 'The problems of government are practical ones and may justify, if they do not require, rough accommodations -- illogical, it may be, and unscientific. ' Metropolis Theatre Co. v. City of Chicago, 228 U.S. 61, 69-70, 33 S. Ct. 441, 443, 57 L. Ed. 730. 'A statutory discrimination will not be set aside if any state of facts reasonably may be conceived to justify it. ' McGowan v. Maryland, 366 U.S. 420, 81 S. Ct. 1101, 1105, 6 L. Ed. 2d 393." Id. at 485, 90 S. Ct. at 1161.

In conclusion, the Court emphasized:

". . . it is a standard that is true to the principle that the Fourteenth Amendment gives the federal courts no power to impose upon the States their views of what constitutes wise economic or social policy." Id. at 485-486, 90 S. Ct. at 1162.

By reason of the digital payment system, defendant appears to be operating with an increased managerial efficiency which does no harm to plaintiffs. An improvement of managerial efficiency is not a synonym for due process violations, and change even of the welfare system is not per se invidious discrimination.

On the Due Process Clause, the Supreme Court has noted:

". . . due process of law does not require a hearing 'in every conceivable case of government impairment of private interest. ' Cafeteria and Restaurant Workers Union etc. v. McElroy, 367 U.S. 886, 894, 81 S. Ct. 1743, 1748, 6 L. Ed. 2d 1230 (1961). That case explained that '[the] very nature of due process negates any concept of inflexible procedures universally applicable to every imaginable situation ' and firmly established that 'what procedures due process may require under any given set of circumstances must begin with a determination of the precise nature of the government function involved as well as of the private interest that has been affected by governmental action. ' Id., at 895, 81 S. Ct. at 1748; Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254, 263, 90 S. Ct. 1011, 1018, 25 L. Ed. 2d 287 (1970)." Stanley v. Illinois, 405 U.S. 645, 650, 92 S. Ct. 1208, 1212, 31 L. Ed. 2d 551 (1972).

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